Jim Lynn

@jimlynn
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I'm a software developer, I worked at the BBC for a while, I worked for Douglas Adams building h2g2, and I've been coding for close to 40 years. These days I'm still coding, but you might know me better from my blog https://vhistory.wordpress.com/ where I archived almost 3000 VHS tapes I recorded off the telly, and I've recently started looking at recordings from the post-VHS era, starting with recordable DVDs.
Absolutely incredible sentence from this BBC News story about the collapse of the BritishVolt battery manufacturing company.
Basically the company had ambition but absolutely zero of the other things you need to manufacture batteries.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64754879
Britishvolt bought by Australian firm Recharge Industries

Recharge Industries is buying Britishvolt, the start-up that collapsed in January.

BBC News
Do you know these messages from recruiters where THEY contact YOU first but write "If you are interested, please send your CV and portfolio."?
I've prepared an application form which I will send them as answer from now on:
https://simonschreibt.de/application/
Application Form for Companies & Recruiters | Simon schreibt.

I will never do better than this.

I solved today's Redactle (#257) in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Redactle - A daily puzzle game

Try to find the title of a random Wikipedia article.

HAVE YOU NOTICED..? 👀

That this is the year 2022?

I jolly well hope so! 😄

But if you consider the year as two numbers (20 and 22), then add them together, you get the magical total of...

4️⃣2️⃣ 😮

It's the first time this has happened since publication of the #HitchhikersGuide series by #DouglasAdams (in fact, the last time was 1923, before DA was even born)

So, I guess, fellow Earthlings, this means by 31 December 2022, we should know the meaning of life, the universe...

And everything! 😎🐁🌐🐀

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.